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Liberty Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
- My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.
- The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as…
- Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
- For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not…
- Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms,…
- To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government.…
- We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.
- If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one…
- Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new…
- It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a…
- They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is…
- The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which, by precept and…
- A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other…
- The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such…
- Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed…
- History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people…
- It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself.…
- These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away…
- I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel…
- True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships…
- The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and…
- The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than…
- If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands…
- The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than…
More Liberty Quotes
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- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once… — Michele Bachmann
- If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and… — Michele Bachmann
- It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton